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Comment author: Kindly 19 April 2013 05:22:25PM 0 points [-]

At a minimum, I endorse being clear in my own head that this is my goal, even if I don't admit it out loud.

This may make you less effective at showing off.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 April 2013 09:04:06PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, sometimes that's true. Sometimes it's very false.
I have waffled about this a fair bit over the years and concluded somewhat-more-than-tentatively that on balance knowing I'm engaging in status-management makes me more effective at status-management than not knowing.
But I don't claim that's universal.

Comment author: TimS 19 April 2013 09:14:23PM 1 point [-]

If nothing else, being conscious of status-management helps you allocate effort. There are lots of communities in which you or I could become high status, but we don't because we don't care about those communities.

Any activity that enhances one's status in those communities is worthless (unless the activity also has other benefits that one does desire).

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